Introduction

A conference of Attorneys General from South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia is to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 19th of January 2015.

The event is being organized by the Attorney General’s Department to commemorate its 130th anniversary. A conference of Attorneys General was last held in Sri Lanka in 1984 as part of the centenary celebrations of the Attorney General’s Department.

The theme of the conference will be ‘Role of the Attorney General in a changing Asia’ and it will be held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo.

Seventeen countries have so far confirmed their participation at the Conference of Attorneys General of South, South-East, East and West Asia to be held on the 19th of January 2015 in Colombo, to mark the 130th Anniversary of the creation of the office of the Attorney General in Sri Lanka.

The Minister of Justice of Mongolia, the Attorneys General of: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives, India, Brunei Darussalam, the Prosecutors General of: Cambodia & Iran, the Procurator General of China, the Acting Solicitor General of Philippines & the Deputy Attorney General of Bhutan.

Among the distinguished invitees for this conference will be: the Hon. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, the Hon. Speaker, the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Minister of Justice, the Ambassadors and High Commissioners of the Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka, the Hon. Judges of the Supreme Court, the Hon. President of the Court of Appeal and the Hon. Judges of the Court of Appeal, the Secretary to His Excellency the President, the Secretary General of Parliament, Secretaries to the Ministries of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Defense and Health, the Inspector General of Police, the President and Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, President’s Counsel of Sri Lanka, officers of the Attorney General’s Department, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, the UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, the Country Director of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.